Tag: College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Two prominent Indonesian leaders will present “Indonesian Update 2010: Political Islam and Regional Autonomy” at 11 a.m. Monday, Sept. 27, in the Heritage Room of the Holmes Student Center. Professor Bahtiar Effendy, dean of the Social and Political Science Department at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University in Jakarta, will discuss Islam politics in his portion of...
G.P. Yeh, a division scientist with the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, will visit NIU to speak at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 24, on “The Energy Transformation.” Yeh’s lecture comes as part of the NIU Department of Physics colloquium and takes place in Room 200 of John E. La Tourette Hall. Refreshments are served at 3 p.m. The...
As an NIU senior majoring in political science and journalism, Dave Thomas knew Washington, D.C., is a big, busy, fast-paced and sprawling newsmaker of a town. This past summer, he became part of it. While serving as an intern for U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley (5th District), Thomas learned that congressional staffers not only work fast, but...
NIU’s Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language and Literacy (CISLL) will host a fall seminar series that begins Monday, Sept. 27. CISLL is an interdisciplinary center for the study of lifespan language and literacy across diverse populations and contexts. Center affiliates engage in basic and applied research in language and literacy, develop and apply...
The work of professional historians isn’t all glitz, glamour and high drama, as fictional accounts such as “The Da Vinci Code” and “The Historian” would lead readers to believe. “It is interesting work, but it also can be painstakingly slow,” says Christine Worobec, who is among the world’s leading historians of tsarist Russia. Worobec has...
Years of work on two Faraday lecture halls was successfully completed in time for students’ return to class this fall. When the students took their seats in the large and small classrooms, they had more legroom, brighter walls and state-of-the art electronics to help them learn. They also have new energy-saving lighting, softer seats, new...
NIU’s Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences will host its first of its fall colloquia at 4 p.m. Friday, Sep. 3, in Davis Hall 308. Magali Billen from the University of California-Davis will speak on “The Role of Mantle and Plate Rheology in Subduction Dynamics.” Call (815) 753-1943 for more information.
For NIU archaeology students, learning means getting some dirt under your fingernails.
Nine teachers from DeKalb High School and nine future teachers from NIU will launch a new era in District 428 this fall – a full year before the new high school opens on Dresser Road. The 18 are participating in a pilot “co-teaching” program expected to transform the old student-teaching model into something more dynamic,...
